A trove of documents related to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's Watergate investigation were unsealed today, including a criminal indictment approved by a grand jury against Richard Nixon on four criminal counts.

Justice Anthony Kennedy has long been known as a swing justice — although in his last season he sided with the court's conservative bloc on several high-profile cases — and replacing him with a more consistent conservative could transform American policy and society for decades to come.

If Twitter and the Washington Post op-ed section are to be believed, we're at some sort of tipping point for the way we conduct political debate here in the United States. The crucial word here is "civility."

Are we going to Mars? Will Trump command a fleet of space ships and come to dominate the cosmos before any other space-faring nation can hope to lay claim to the resources of the infinite? The answers are, predictably, far more boring.

Students across America are leaving school for the day to protest against gun violence. Just this morning, another school shooting in Ocala, Florida has underscored just how intractable the problem is.